David Droga Quotes
Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.
